Pidansom (, : Chouduan Island
[Liu, Yue, et al. "Provenance tracing of indicative minerals in sediments of the Yalu River estuary and its adjacent shallow seas." Journal of Coastal Research 29.5 (2013): 1227-1235.]) is a
river island in the
Yalu river
The Yalu River, known by Koreans as the Amrok River or Amnok River, is a river on the border between North Korea and China. Together with the Tumen River to its east, and a small portion of Paektu Mountain, the Yalu forms the border between ...
in
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...
. Pidansom was developed by merging of several river islands such as Sindo Island (薪島) and Maando (馬鞍島) in the 1960s. The island is home to a fishing cooperative and is also used for agriculture.
See also
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Sindo County
Sindo County is a ''kun'' (county) in the North P'yŏngan province of North Korea. Most of the county consists of Pidansŏm, an island in the estuary of the Yalu River. Sindo was established as a separate county in 1991; previously, it had been p ...
References
River islands of North Korea
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